Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boorstin believes that travel, which implies movement to varying places, has been largely transformed into a "pseudo event" by the homogenization of the U.S. roadscape, along whose orange-roofed sameness one is always in essentially the same place - here, there, everywhere, nowhere...
...club where Ayer Hitam's old colonials quietly fade away, time has congealed around 1938. One old boor is revealed as a pseudo reactionary because "he had no politics, only opinions, pet hates, grudges, and a paradoxical loathing for bureaucracy and trust in authority." A Japanese businessman who is cold-shouldered on the tennis courts exacts revenge by elevating one of the club's Malay ball boys to guest status. "The war did not destroy the English," writes Theroux. "It fixed them in fatal attitudes. The Japanese were destroyed and out of that destruction came different...
...sense, his critics were right, for Adler still describes himself as an Aristotelian. (When he first started his Aspen programs for executives, Adler and a group actually donned robes to get into the spirit of academe.) He relishes dismissing most of philosophy since Thomas Aquinas as being snarled with pseudo problems. Modern philosophy, claims Adler, got off to "a very bad start" when Descartes and Locke committed the "besetting sin of modern thought": they ignored Aristotle...
Luckily, though, some do. Roger Kahn, a Brooklyn-born sage weaned on decades of Dodger glory, spent the better part of his youth trying, in his own words, "to equate the game in terms of Americana." The result was a fat passel of pseudo-sociological articles that would have warmed the heart of Vance Packard. Only they didn't work. Slowly, Kahn admits, he realized that baseball was one interesting part of American life, but hardly a mystic expression of its inner meaning. Like all fun and games, baseball is best suited to anecdotes, not weighty moralizing, to light yarns...
...Line trains that will shoot you down under Mass Ave are the top of Boston's subway fleet. The Red Line has the plushy-cushioned seats, and it has the milk run through the city from the local (elitist) seat of higher learning to the local pseudo-quaint suburban town of Quincy Center. The Red Line is good for long, dark rushes under the streets, but is also boring. Its best feature is on board--the spectrum of people riding between the Square and Boston. But beyond Washington station the passengers get boringly respectable and well-dressed...